Phew, there’s so much to talk about this month that we didn’t even have time to come up with a good pun for our title. They’ll be back next time. Sorry guys.

Remarkable Contributions

• DCPlaysMC edited various cosmetics pages, and added his own images to improve the galleries! Thanks!

• Just like the other, User:Wattywatty14 joined us only a few weeks ago, but made lots of changes already. Nice job!

• A big thank you to SophOG, who did not only work on several articles, but was also very actively engaged in discussion regarding the staff pages. Looks like we found our User of the Month for May! :) 

Discussion, feedback and internal changes

The recently introduced Staff pages (example) caused a lot of controversy. We’ve received quite a few valid complaints, questioning their adequacy and their value of contribution to the Wiki. To centralize the discussion in one thread, we prepared an announcement which includes a poll with all the options which are currently available for us. We’d love to hear your feedback on the matter so we can make sure our final decision is the best choice for everyone!

After a long wait from our end, we’ve finally decided to launch a brand new project! Maybe some of you noticed already that Mineplex doesn’t offer any sort of translations of the rules anywhere, even if the entire bedrock platform is translated. Thus, we decided to host translations for them on our platform! These will made by volunteers within the Translations Teams members, including both of us. We’re really proud to start such a project as it is a big step towards helping the international community around Mineplex. In the future, if it all works out well we might also start translating Mineplex's FAQs and other useful information! However, you might not want to expect a translation of the entire Wiki as, sadly, that would require a lot more active contributors from all around the globe. 

Feel free to suggest anything you think would be useful to improve this project! 

We have a small update about the progression of discussions with Mineplex leadership team. The Community Management team is interested in working together with us to improve the Wiki. The details are yet to be discussed though, and the project is put on hold while major changes are being made to the Game Insights team. We’ll hopefully have more updates for you soon.

Finally, we have a rather special announcement for today. On a personal note, I’m very excited for this, because of my struggle to meet the activity requirements of my leadership position recently.

Nicodami requested the rank of bureaucrat. As you know, he has been an administrator for a few months now, and he still plays an active role around the wiki with several edits on a weekly basis. Here’s a short introduction by Nicolas himself:

Hey! For those of you who don’t know me, I have been around the Mineplex community for a while now, as I joined in 2014. To this day, I am a part of Mineplex’s ideas and translations team, and mainly play Block Hunt on the network. I have been on the wiki since over a year ago, and have over a thousand of edits here, making me one of the biggest contributors to this wiki. Recently, I’ve been working on making the new translations project possible!

His entire application can be seen here. Remember that your vote matters, so be sure to leave your thoughts in the announcement thread here. 

Upcoming content

We’ll be back with the June newsletter in exactly two weeks from now, where we will announce the results of the staff pages polls, the progress of the Translations project, and the outcome of Nicodami’s application. Stay tuned!

If you have any other suggestions for the newsletters or you just want to share your thoughts, make sure to leave a reply. 

Thanks!